Several local BJP leaders and Pradhans of Lansdowne n Nainidanda join Congress n pledge to extend their whole hearted support to Congress candidate Anukriti Gusain

The Bhartiya Janata Party sitting MLA Dilip Singh Rawat has suffered a massive setback when a, strong pillar of Bhartiya Janata Party senior leader and former deputy DP B. L. Madhwal and his, wife who is the district Panchayat elected member including six elected village heads of several Gram Sabhas and more than thirty priactive BJP activists have resigned from BJP membership and joined Congress party expressing full faith in the leadership of Anukrity Gusain Rawat, the daughter in law of Dr. Harak Singh Rawat, former cabinet minister and heavy weight in Congress party and expressed their unstinted support to her promising to make her victorious in the ensuing election.

Mr. Madhwal, his wife and the active BJP Pradhans of various villages joining Congress said that the main reason behind their turning hostile to the saffron party and joining Congress is that during the last five years the developmental works remain stagnated with no grievances of the inhabitants resolved. Majority of these BJP workers and Gram Pradhan hailing from Nainidanda, said that their block was never attended and not a, single development related works carried out during the last five years expressing their resentment against the sitting MLA.

Those who joined Congress and expressed their whole hearted support to the Congress candidate former Miss India Delhi n model Anukriti Gusain are B L Madhwal, former SO n BJP leader, his wife, district Punchayat member, a proactive worker of Nainidanda BJP Devendra Bharti and several village heads viz Deva Devi, Pradhan n Block Adhyaksh, Prem Singh Pradhan, Kala Talla, district media incharge BJP Deen Dayal Chaturvedi, BJP Mandal Social Media chief Raman Madhwal, Ranbir Singh, Pradhan Rishi, Yashpal Singh Pradhan representative Aulesh, Rekha Devi, Pradhan Pultanda, Jaspal Singh, Dadwadi Narendra Singh, Pradhan, Baadagaad, Ghananand, Pradhan, Kaplad, Dharampal, Pradhan Malla, Pradeep, former Pradhan, Ravindra, Gaula ( Malla), Shyam Singh, Adwaada, Deendayal Chaturvedi, Pradhan Wilkot, Jaipal Singh, Pradhan, Nainiyakhet, Tatrapal Singh, Pradhan, Chorgad, etc It may be recalled that the senior vice president of Uttarakhand Congress Dhirendra Pratap too had met the Uttarakhand Incharge yesterday in Delhi and assured of their support to Anukrity Gusain Rawat. He was one of the ticket aspirant from this constituency. Meanwhile in his post in social media today Anukriti Gusain disclosed that a block pramukh of Rikhnikhal Block and a senior BJP leaders, including 50 District Panchayat members, two hundred pradhans ( village heads), woman activists n BJP workers have joined Congress expressing full faith in her leadership assuring of her victory in the ensuing election from Lansdowne.